Suppose you have a document of 50 pages and you want to delete pages 10 to 15. You may wonder if there is a way to delete that range with a single action.
Not with a single action, no. The reason is because Word technically knows nothing about pages. Page designations are very fluid, depending on all sorts of variables such as the amount of text in a document, what formatting is applied, and which printer driver is being used. That being said, there is a relatively easy way to delete pages 10 to 15.
Follow these steps: • Press F5. Word displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
Perform the following steps each time you plan to distribute a final electronic copy of a Word document: Open the document. Click the File tab.With Info highlighted on the left, you will see the file properties on the right that show, for example, the author of the file.
The Pages option should be selected, by default, at the left of the dialog box. • Type 10 into the Enter a Page Number box and then press Enter. Word jumps to the beginning of page 10. • If the Find and Replace dialog box doesn't go away on its own (it will in some versions of Word), press Esc. This turns on Extend mode.
Word again displays the Go To tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. • Type 16 into the Enter a Page Number box and then press Enter.
Word jumps to the beginning of page 16, but selects everything from the last insertion point location because you are using Extend mode. This means that you now have everything on pages 10 through 15 selected. • If the Find and Replace dialog box doesn't go away on its own (it will in some versions of Word), press Esc.
• Press the Delete key. Even though this process is noted here as 8 steps, it really is quite quick to perform. I was able to perform them in less than 5 seconds, which is a pretty fast way to get rid of a group of pages. Another way to approach the task is to use the Zoom control to set a very small zoom factor. If you set something like 10% or 20%, you should see a number of pages on the screen at the same time.
You can then use the mouse to easily select the pages you want to delete and then delete them. If you haven't caught on to the idea yet, in Word you need to select text (not pages) and then delete the text. Thus, another way to quickly select the text that comprises pages 10 through 15 is to jump to the beginning of page 10 and make sure the insertion point is there. Then, click on the 'thumb button' on the vertical scroll bar at the right of the window and drag it until you see that it is on page 15.
As you hold the Shift key, click at the point on the page where you want your text selection to end. You can then delete the selection. Wyatt, A few weeks ago I was doing the final edits in Word on a Bible-based life coach book that I've written and while it was open, Mozilla freaked out and opened almost 100 windows. After much frustration in not being able to regain control of my computer, I decided to let it be and go make dinner only to return 45 minutes later and find that my book now had almost 1,000 blank pages added to it! (And no, I didn't leave anything lying on the keyboard pressing 'Enter'.) I went to View then Thumbnails to try and delete and it wouldn't work at all.
I then reached out to two friends that I believe to be savvier than me in Word and they didn't know how to mass delete blank pages. I looked up online video and article tutorials and not one of them worked, until I found you yesterday! BLESS YOU DEAR MAN!
This article of yours was the solution and I could NOT be anymore grateful! After following your very well done instructions, I emailed this page to each of my friends and told them to save it for their future reference because it fixed my issue in about 90 seconds. (It would've been even faster than that if I did it all at once but I did it in sections to be sure I didn't delete pages that I didn't want deleted.) Thank you so much for your excellent instructions and desperately needed help! I've always had trouble deleting a single page in the midst of a document. I would just print it out and throw away the page I didn't want.
However, if I wanted to send the document electronically, I obviously couldn't do this. I had been searching the internet for a solution and got all kinds of very technical advice with many steps that i found very difficult to follow! THEN IT DAWNED ON ME!!! For example, if you want to delete page 7 of a 15 page document, simply open a new BLANK document, copy and paste pages 1-6 into the new document; then go back and copy and paste pages 8-15 into the new document! Page 7 gone!!! Save the new doc and throw the other one into the trash!